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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"If ever the time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." -Samuel Adams, revolutionary (27 Sep 1722-1803)

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing." -John Brunner, novelist (24 Sep 1934-1995)

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own." -H.G. Wells, (21 Sep 1866-1946)

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

THIS 👇 HERE.......

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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wow. This is what happens with incompetent loyalists, who are sworn to protect a child s*x pred*tor are in charge of the house. SMH.

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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Absolutely agree with this. The madness has gone on far too long.

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Ima Cygnenoir @ima-cygnenoir52.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

remember the *GOP* death panels accusations? Well here they are

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back." -Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (9 Sep 1828-1910)

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If Dems take back the House, Hakeem Jeffries must not become Speaker. The Dem Party, the entire country, needs a Speaker who will meet this moment. By meeting with Jared Kushner, Jeffries proved he cannot meet this moment. Give this a read.👇 socialcontractwithjoewalsh.substack.com/p/hakeem-jef...

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Hakeem Jeffries Must Not Become Speaker

This Week’s Monday Missive

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it." -Edith Sitwell, poet (7 Sep 1887-1964)

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag." -Kin Hubbard, humorist (1 Sep 1868-1930)

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun." -Martin Amis, novelist (25 Aug 1949-2023)

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all." -Ogden Nash, poet (19 Aug 1902-1971)

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself." -Robert Green Ingersoll, lawyer and orator (11 Aug 1833-1899)

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." -Guy de Maupassant, short story writer and novelist (5 Aug 1850-1893)

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Elizabeth @lizard714.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Republicans have been gutting education for decades. This is what becomes of an ignorant society. How do you wake up a person who is too dumb (w/ a b) to know they are dumb?

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive." James Baldwin, writer

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country." -Alexis de Tocqueville, statesman and historian (29 Jul 1805-1859)

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead." -Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist, Nobel laureate (21 Jul 1899-1961)

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, “Mother, what was war?” -Eve Merriam, poet and writer (19 Jul 1916-1992)

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny." -Wole Soyinka, playwright, poet, Nobel laureate (b. 13 Jul 1934)

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don’t like?" -Jean Cocteau, author and painter (5 Jul 1889-1963)

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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient.

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Very short but very important video. Please share with everybody. Quiet but extreme corruption at the highest level! youtube.com/shorts/rcee4...

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Bombshell: a new DOJ rule on prisons

YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

"'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion'. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect." -Salman Rushdie, writer (b. 19 Jun 1947) Happy Birthday Mr. Rushdie!

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. -JFK, President (29 May 1917-63)

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

"The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life -- the sick, the needy, and the handicapped. -Hubert Humphrey, US VP (27 May 1911-1978)

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent."-Bertrand Russell, philosopher (18 May 1872-1970)

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers". -Thomas Pynchon, novelist (b. 8 May 1937)

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VC 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇩🇪🇩🇰🇸🇪🇵🇱 @minilover04.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 we are so effing stupid in this country.

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"War, at first, is the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off." -Karl Kraus, writer (28 Apr 1874-1936)

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Professor Plink @professorplink.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

No greater deconversion tool than the bible.

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

"Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason." -Henry Fielding, author (21 Apr 1707-1754) Happy Birthday Henry!

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

"The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions." -Robert Lynd, writer (20 Apr 1879-1949) Happy Birthday Robert.

Portrait of Robert Lynd. He was writer, essayist and editor of poetry.

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

We should be learning from other countries...

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave." -Billie Holiday, jazz singer and songwriter (7 Apr 1915-1959) Happy Birthday Ms. Holiday!

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

"Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance." -Verna Myers, author and speaker (b. 5 Apr 1960)

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"You see, war is not the answer / For only love can conquer hate. / You know we've got to find a way / To bring some lovin' here today." -Marvin Gaye, singer and songwriter (2 Apr 1939-1984) Happy Birthday Marvin

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Retired Mark @marktheretired.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

"A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat." -Louis L’Amour, novelist (22 Mar 1908-1988)

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